I am exhorted by the prophet Joel, as were the whole of
Israel and as the entire church is, in Joel 1:14-15 and Joel 2:16-17 to bow
before Him and sanctify and purify myself in Him because He is coming and His
judgment is near. I am exhorted to plead
for mercy and forgiveness and to humble myself before them.
God doesn’t want me to go to church to be going to church.
He doesn’t want my checklist of good deeds. He wants me to be humble and
contrite to recognize that I would be walking down the wrong road without Him
and to praise Him for that. God doesn’t want us to not chase after the vanity
of immediate gratification, regardless of whether it is outright sin and going
against His will or whether it is indirectly related to sin even though in and
of itself is not bad. (Romans 6:13) Because whatever we pursue we are always
its slave. And if we do what is outside of God’s will we will be on the path to
death. If on the other hand we pursue God we are servants to His holiness.
(Romans 6:16) And He calls us to return and return and return so that He can
provide for us. (R0mans 6:19)
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